Pff its a pretty hard thing to calculate, as its not only comparison between damage vs cast time, but also time used casting, increased crit rate for pyro

The main thing though is that you will prolly end up with less direct back to back crits. Which means less HS procs. I mean even with 6.5% more crit, when we get past 50% crit again with fireball, it will prolly take around 5 fireballs on average to crit twice in a row, and pyroblast having 1,55 times longer cast time it you can only fit 3.21 pyroblasts in the same time span.. So in the end it purely comes down to damage/time that fireball and pyro do, and atm that difference is 6%(without t15 4 set) in favor of fireball..

Edit: funny side note.. if pyro has 56.5% crit chance the back to back chance is around 32%, So even that will even up the cast time difference. So ye.. would need a sim to run this on.. so gogo coders!

Blizzard has already shown that they will go out of their way to make sure pyroblast spam will not work by nerfing non proc pyroblasts the last time this question started to appear and stating that this was the exact reason for doing it so even if it does turn out better you can be sure it won't last

Blizzard has already shown that they will go out of their way to make sure pyroblast spam will not work by nerfing non proc pyroblasts the last time this question started to appear and stating that this was the exact reason for doing it so even if it does turn out better you can be sure it won't last

Mm, But if they would have buffed fireball damage by lets say 5% when they should have to compensate the loss of dps from invoc, we would be having this topic now would we, and that buff to fireball would loose its power more and more crit we get as we get more HS procs which in turn means less fireball casts

Blizzard has already shown that they will go out of their way to make sure pyroblast spam will not work by nerfing non proc pyroblasts the last time this question started to appear and stating that this was the exact reason for doing it so even if it does turn out better you can be sure it won't last

Ahh true.

I'll at least try it later and keep the results in secrecy then if they go positively :3

Don't want them nerfing MORE >_>; They've already taken everything from us this expansion

Maybe after AT during bloodlust...
Gonna just wait until we actually get a final patch before they change everything again on us.

Fire will prolly never reach 1 second cast time with fireball, unless you get some crazy haste trinket again and you are a troll, reason for this is that the haste required to do that is just crazy numbers(16k rating with berserking)